From 3ba46d9e96dba669e611c295883c04a938ae77a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: JP Hastings-Spital Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:42:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Context on Foursquare imports --- content/tags/from-foursquare/_index.md | 4 ++++ content/tags/from-gowalla/_index.md | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 content/tags/from-foursquare/_index.md diff --git a/content/tags/from-foursquare/_index.md b/content/tags/from-foursquare/_index.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..78bc9f13 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/tags/from-foursquare/_index.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +--- +title: From Foursquare +--- +[Foursquare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foursquare_City_Guide) is a location tagging/check-in tool for telling your friends what you are up to. Apparently I used it a lot, as it appears a bunch in my [Tweet archive](/posts/importing-tweets/)! diff --git a/content/tags/from-gowalla/_index.md b/content/tags/from-gowalla/_index.md index ed438300..dd81b69b 100644 --- a/content/tags/from-gowalla/_index.md +++ b/content/tags/from-gowalla/_index.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- title: From Gowalla --- -[Gowalla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowalla) was a late 2000s location tagging/check-in tool, similar to Foursquare, for telling your friends what you were up to. Apparently I used it a lot! +[Gowalla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowalla) was a late 2000s location tagging/check-in tool, similar to [Foursquare](/tags/from-foursquare?), for telling your friends what you were up to. Apparently I used it a lot! In 2011 it was acquired by Facebook, and by mid-2012 all the site had been d=taken down, and the checkin data was either deleted or made unavailable to customers — so I don't have many of the photos associated with these posts, which is a shame.